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Thanks Rachel! Your music is awesome 🙂

@@connorshafran :) xxx

​@@RachelKCollierRKC ​ & @Connor Shafran, so happy to see two amazing Ableton looping artists complementing each other! We are so lucky to experience the love and hard work that you share with us! Keep on rocking! :D

and as well, he did the video set up and editing as well

Thank you Kyle, that's very kind of you!

Glad to hear! :)

That's very kind, thank you :)

I was using Bink Looper in this video, but I use ClyphX Pro now.

Wasn't my idea, feel free to keep stealing it!

hence the title ;)

zel that’s also my favorite part to play!

"after silence, that which comes closest to expressing the inexpressible, is music" -Aldous Huxley

I wish I had an easy answer, but it's usually a pretty messy process. I never make any songwriting templates with the intention of forcing myself to start from scratch with every new song and live-set. This means that my process changes continuously, always evolving from previous mistakes. For this song, I think I improv'd some of the themes (like the intro synth theme with the weird phasing rhythm) and built a song-structure sketch around it. It sat around collecting dust for a while, and then I went back and re-wrote it from the ground up for live performance. When I'm thinking about creating highly-detailed, through-composed songs like this, it's almost easier for me to write from scratch, rather than re-working a song I've already written. If I try to re-write an existing song, it's often difficult to live-loop without changing the structure, which can mess with the pacing... Whereas when I start from scratch, I can write for the specific motions of moving between the instruments, picking mallets up, etc, while still pacing things out how I want. Regarding the modal changes, that just tends to happen a lot in my music. With natural minor keys, I'm always fascinated by the gravity towards the minor key built off the fourth scale degree. This song moves fluidly between G# minor and C# minor in that way. "Soon This Air Will Be Too Thin" falls from G minor to C minor. "Hold" dances around C minor and F minor, and ends up in Bb minor at the end... You see the pattern. As Jacob Collier puts it, the circle of fourths is the "most minor" sound possible, so I guess I'm just resistant to major tonalities.

@@connorshafran , thank you so much for your feedback! It is the creative process that inspires me. I am trying to get out of the "one chord sequence" looping limitation. Not easy, but, as you say, it´s all an evolving process. This is my tryout based on a legacy project I love! Thank you for your music! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-QoRKpclDCos.html

Thanks! It's a KORG MicroKorg. Although in the intro, I'm using it as a Midi-Controller for a synth I made in Ableton using Operator and Collison. The actual sound of the Korg can be heard in all the other synth parts.

Just a box of paperclips, placed on a small piece of bubble wrap :)

@@connorshafran awesome! I thought it was mouth guard😂 How do you stop bleeding of other layers in to your loops?

Actually it's all good. I just saw your video on Bink looper

I don't think Ableton Lite comes with Max for Live... If so, you won't be able to use any Max plug-ins like Bink Looper.

Arranging this kind of looping/solo-performance stuff is a bit like being a choreographer. The location of the instruments dictates the musical possibilities. My advice is to build a setup, and then write music for it (rather than the other way around).

I just use the session record function and record all the parts onto their own channels. It'll cause some weird things to happen on the EFX channels, but you can just delete everything on them except for the recorded automation. Also, it's not a bad idea to just set up a blank channel for every mic input you have (or stereo pairs so you can use half as many channels) and just set them to record the whole time, so if anything weird happens and something doesn't record, you have the audio on those channels as a backup. Hope that helps.

@@connorshafran yeah I found out the same. Thank you very much indeed!!

Julie and Me Official Klebefolie! Hat perfekt funktioniert :)